The folks from eadt.co.uk write: Due to filming commitments for the third Lord of the Rings film, Sir Ian missed his sister’s funeral, but will appear in An Evening to Remember at the village hall in November in her memory. [More]
Category: Old Main News
Sala Baker at the recent Ring*Con
Hollywood, CA — June 21, 2004 Actor Sala Baker has signed on to appear in the upcoming feature documentary, Ringers: Lord of the Fans. Mr. Baker gained worldwide fame for playing the Dark Lord Sauron in The Fellowship of the Ring and the Man Flesh Uruk in The Two Towers as well as doing stunt work for all three movies. Mr. Baker has also assisted in the production of fellow “Rings” Trilogy cast member Sean Astin’s film, The Long and Short of It. [More] [Ringers Website]
Lord Of The Rings star Billy Boyd was at this year’s glitzy Oscars ceremony to see the Hollywood fantasy epic scoop an incredible 11 awards. But yesterday, the 35-year-old from Glasgow said he felt humbled to be named as Our Entertaining Hero. He said: ‘I feel a bit of a cheat when there’s people doing something that really matters. [More]
Matt in Minneapolis writes: Twice a year, The TOP500 project makes a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems. In November 2003, WETA Digital’s computer clusters ranked 44th and 48th in the world. By June 2004, they already slipped to 77th and 80th. Disney, MPC, Sony, Media & Entertainment, and Digital Media Company were on the list, (but I couldn’t find ILM). [More]
NEW YORK – “The Lord of the Rings” star Liv Tyler is pregnant with her first child, People magazine says. Tyler, the daughter of Aerosmith’s lead singer, Steven Tyler, is married to rock singer Royston Langdon, of the band Spacehog. [More]
Thingo Baggins writes: The science teachers at the school where I work got the March April 2004 issue of ‘howstuffworks’ ‘express’ magazine. The cover has our own Gollum on it and there is a great article on his creation. [More]